While fans may forgive Spurs chairman Daniel Levy and manager Andre Villas-Boas for their inability to sign Damiao for a price they deemed reasonable, their obvious lack of a backup plan meant that the club were stuck with a precarious situation at striker for the rest of the season.

After all, with only two experienced recognized strikers in Jermain Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor, the side entered the final few months of their season with little to no depth at one of the most important positions in football.

Over the past few weeks, the problem has just been compounded, as Defoe suffered an injury and Adebayor returned late from the Africa Cup of Nations.

While Gareth Bale's fantastic performances have bailed Spurs out in their past few league fixtures, it seems clear that the striker position is one that needs to be addressed by the club this summer.

The question that arises from this need, though, is whether the club should buy a more supporting striker to merely add depth or opt for an overhaul and buy replacements for their current duo.

To see the answer to this question, one needs to look no further than a statistical breakdown of this season's Premier League strikers.

In this table of data compiled from WhoScored.com, Defoe and Adebayor are compared with 17 other Premier League strikers in two categories: The percentage of their shots that are goals and their rate of key passes per match.